- while it works on 64-bit systems, the Squeak plugins are not 64-bit clean, and upstream isn't interested in resolution.

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- Scratch 2.0 was just released with great fanfare, and that based on proprietary Adobe Flash. Hopefully a future version will be open-source friendly again. The current version isn't yet dead, but heavy promotion seems untimely.

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The package as it is ''is'' in F19, though, so people can use it, and I do

- while it works on 64-bit systems, the Squeak plugins are not 64-bit clean, and upstream isn't interested in resolution.
- Scratch 2.0 was just released with great fanfare, and that based on proprietary Adobe Flash. Hopefully a future version will be open-source friendly again. The current version isn't yet dead, but heavy promotion seems untimely.

The package as it is is in F19, though, so people can use it, and I do
intend to work on the 64-bit issues as I have time.

Read more about Scratch at http://scratch.mit.edu. Previous versions were not open source, but this one is. We've also worked with upstream to resolve issues around licensing and proprietary media formats.

We're largely done: the package is in the last stages of review, and issues around mp3s and licensing complications have been resolved. Additionally, the Squeak VM (which Scratch runs on) has been updated to the latest version, fixing a number of problems.

A few bugs remain in the current package, including an issue with full screen mode and a crash when using the camera. These should be resolved before the program is presented as a feature.

I'd like to see Scratch through the review process in any case. The most likely contingency is that it's packaged but still has bugs, in which case we'll leave it available but document those bugs. In the worst case, we just don't ship it.

Fedora 19 includes Scratch, the graphical programming environment from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, animations, music, and art.

Install Scratch with

yum install scratch

and run either from your desktop's application menu (under Programming) or by typing `scratch` in a terminal window.